child support; domestic
relations; committees
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Committee on Retirement and Government Operations |
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Committee on Human Services |
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Caucus and COW |
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Third Read |
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As Passed the House |
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SB 1088 establishes the Child Support Committee and the Domestic Relations Committee, their members and their duties until December 31, 2007. The bill also repeals the Child Support Enforcement and Domestic Relations Reform Committee, the Child Support Council Subcommittee and the Domestic Relations Reform Study Subcommittee.
SB 1088 was amended in the Retirement and Government Operations Committee to raise the number of Senators and Representatives in the Domestic Relations Committee from two to three members. SB 1088 passed the Human Services Committee unamended. SB 1088 was amended in the Committee of the Whole to add to the membership of the Domestic Relations Committee and changes the date for preparing a statewide plan for integrated family court.
ARS §25-320.01 established a Child Support Enforcement and Domestic Relations Reform Committee to monitor and submit the work of the Child Support Council Subcommittee and the Domestic Relations Reform Study Subcommittee. The Child Support Council Subcommittee’s duty was to review plans of and make recommendations to certain governmental agencies regarding child support enforcement and related issues.
The Domestic Relations Reform Study Subcommittee was responsible for recommending changes to statutes, rules and issues that related to domestic relations. The Domestic Relations Reform Study Subcommittee also had the specific duty of clarifying grandparents’ rights in domestic relations issues.
· Establishes the Child Support Committee and its members.
· Requires the Child Support Committee to prepare and submit an annual report consisting of work, findings and recommendations on child support guidelines, enforcement and related issues on or before December 31, each year.
· Establishes the Domestic Relations Committee and its members.
· Requires the Domestic Relations Committee to prepare and submit a statewide plan for an integrated family court on or before December 31, 2002.
· Requires the Domestic Relations Committee to prepare and submit an annual report consisting of recommendations on the domestic relations statutes, rules, procedures and other related issues on or before December 31, each year.
· Prohibits nonlegislative members of the Child Support Committee and the Domestic Relations Committee from receiving compensations but allows them reimbursements of expenses.
· Repeals the Child Support Enforcement and Domestic Relations Reform Committee, the Child Support Council Subcommittee and the Domestic Relations Reform Study Subcommittee.
· Repeals the Child Support Committee and the Domestic Relations Committee January 1, 2008.
SB 1088 was amended in the Retirement and Government Operations Committee as follows:
§ Increases the number of Senators and Representatives in the Domestic Relations Committee from two to three members.
SB 1088 passed the Human Services Committee unamended.
SB 1088 was amended in the Committee of the Whole as follows:
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Adds an additional judge or commissioner from the
Domestic Relations Department of the Superior Court to the Domestic Relations
Committee and specifies that the two judges/commissioners from the Domestic
Relations Department should represent both, rural and urban counties.
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Changes the date for the Domestic Relations Committee
to prepare a statewide plan for integrated family courts to December 31, 2002
from October 1, 2002.
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45th Legislature
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Second Regular Session 2 April 29, 2002
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